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by Ester Ouli Kim, The Seattle Globalist, on Jun 8, 2018. Persephone Angeli’s story as a first-generation University of Washington student starts with her mother.“It’s always been her dream to get her bachelor’s and become a teacher,” Angeli said.Angeli’s mom came to the United States from El Salvador. Her dad was born in Hawaii. Neither…

By Troy Markowitz, at Forbes. on August 8, 2017. Follow on Twitter. iStock On March 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln remarked, “When one starts poor, as most do in the race of life, free society is such that he knows he can better his condition; he knows that there is no fixed condition of labor, for his whole…

by Kori Crockett, Brookings, on October 26, 2017, Follow Kori Cockett on Twitter The seriousness of low college graduation rates among first-generation and low-income college students cannot be overstated. Today, only 9 percent of students from low-income families earn a bachelor’s degree by age 24, compared to 77 percent of students from high-income families. Even more troubling, there has…

By Megan Bachman, Published: February 5, 2015, YSNews.com Antioch College recently announced that it received an anonymous donation of more than $1 million earmarked for scholarships. The gift was not an anomaly for a college almost entirely dependent upon donations, but it is significant in that it supports the college’s mission to enroll those who wouldn’t…

By Karen Farkas, Northeast Ohio Media Group Follow on Twitter on February 05, 2015 at 11:47 AM, updated February 05, 2015 at 1:20 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio – The inequity between the ability of students from high- and low-income families to earn a college degree continues to grow, according to a new report. In 2013, students…

By Lyndsey Layton January 16, 2015, The Washington Post For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation. The Southern Education Foundation reports that 51 percent of…

The Atlantic, By LIZ RIGGS DEC 31 2014, 2:54 PM ET Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education come on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation. When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student…

Springfield News-Leader, Claudette Riley, 9 p.m. CST December 28, 2014 Anzley Arline wanted to go to college but, until a couple months ago, didn’t think it was possible. The Parkview High School senior had all but given up when he got up the courage to walk into Katie Dempsey’s office. Dempsey, a college adviser new…

JC online Lafayette Journal & Courier, By Taya Flores, tflores@jconline.com 5:54 p.m. EST December 27, 2014 As a young black male student at Purdue University,Maurice Simon often finds himself on the outside looking in. “I felt like I was an immigrant at this campus — a total outsider, taking people’s resources and I wasn’t wanted,” said the…